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New Secret Service Head Joe Clancy Personally Led Obama Security
[NBCNEWS] Joe Clancy, the man in charge of cleaning up the Secret Service after a series of embarrassing security gaffes, is the ideal person to lead the agency through troubled waters, Washington insiders said Wednesday.The Department of Homeland Security named Clancy, director of corporate security for Comcast Corp., as interim acting director of the Secret Service after Julia Pierson resigned Wednesday. He retired from the agency in July 2011 as special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, a role for which he was well-regarded. "I'm very pleased," Rep. Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... , D-Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee, told NBC News. "He is a person the president has utmost confidence in -- he will take a bullet for him." Because of the nature of the agency, not a great deal is known about Clancy's Secret Service career, but his face should be familiar to the American people -- he's the balding man walking behind the president and his family in hundreds of pictures of the First Family during the first 2½ years of the B.O. regime. "I knew Joe Clancy when he led the presidential detail," David Axelrod ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O.Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out.... , one of Obama's oldest friends and longest-serving advisers, said on Twitter. "You could not find a better person to repair the Secret Service." Posted by: Fred 2014-10-02 |
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